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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1899
Page
3
A period piece urges mothers to seek reliable feminine health guidance from Lydia E. Pinkham and recounts letters praising the Vegetable Compound for menstrual pain, irregularities, and leucorrhea. Testimonies claim relief, improved color, and stronger well being for young women and their mothers.
A long list of church services across the city details morning and evening worship at numerous denominations. Highlights include Fit Uflted Presbyterian at Hiehrhend Teorks, St Es Hanlin, First Unitarian with Rev. Abram Wyman, Oakland Presbyterian, First State Spiritualist, and First M. E. Church with sermons on faith, unity, and religious instruction. Special events feature lectures, Sunday schools, and youth activities led by various pastors and ministers.
Western Electric Line planned from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek via 25 to 29 miles of new air line. Investors Strattan Irving Howbert James Rures William Leones and others financed the project with 2,000,000 capital. Route surveyed Bear Creek canyon with extension to Colorado Springs anticipated. Also notes Santa Fe sleeper service from Topeka to California.
W E Curtis notes a major shift in grain exports from Atlantic ports to Galveston via the Santa Fe line. Galveston’s harbor upgrades and railroad access shorten export routes, cutting costs and boosting Kansas grain shipments. The piece highlights Kansas’s growing agricultural output, irrigation, and rail investment, with figures on value and debt.
The poem dedication praises Kansas farmers wives and features Morton's verse The Man Behind the Plow highlighting the hen as a hero The public can request a full copy from the Santa Fe Railway company office in Chicago William B Curtis
A policeman pursued a suspicious figure on lower Kansas Avenue. The suspect fled, shedding coat and vest as he dodged around a house corner while the officer pressed the chase, narrowly closing the distance.
A tale recounts a police humor chase where an officer pursued a man around a house only to be thwarted when a cat, then a dog, caused diversions. The man slipped away as the officer tripped over the animal, and the chase ended with the realized deception.
The culls were filed against Western Union and Postal Telegraph for not complying with a new rate law. The first named suit is SUS, with 88 others. Justice Wright heeded a district court order to proceed in a telegraph case but slipped away through back alleys as suits were docketed. Stimulating tale follows of a horse race crash near a well in old Indiana town with a dramatic rescue from a sailor named Weissman. the rider escaped with minor injuries and a doctor who treated him later practiced in North Topeka.
Portland Maine May 6 preliminary slopes allege Western Union Telegraph Company failed to deliver a message to Miss Mamie Small of Gardiner Maine. She was killed February 16 about 7 pm allegedly because the telegram warning of danger did not reach her. Plaintiff seeks $25,000 damages claiming the non delivery caused her death and suit is pending in Superior Court. Also a grocery advertisement for Queen Tea Powder appears.
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